Let us chat about " Manspreading "

[WinstonWolf]

paranoid airbag said:

WinstonWolf said:

If anyone would know the correct gender specific variant it would be you...

Are you an actual lezzer because you've certainly got a downer on men.

This has got to be trolling. 1960s Bond thinks that attitude is outdated.

Why is it that every debate on feminism, more than most other subjects, devolves into a stupidity contest? Which the critics of feminism seem to win. Don't get me wrong, it's pretty fking marginal at times.

Correct, but TT is obviously trolling too. No one can be that right on and own a pair of testicles.

[Blue Cat]

Greg_D said:

Blue Cat said:

bodhi said:

schmunk said:

anonymous said:

[redacted]

Also unlikely to be a phrase to make you popular with the ladies...

Unless the ladies watch a lot of South Park, in which case they will LOVE you for it.

(OH has every episode on DVD, and uses this phrase more than I do. I may have to introduce her to the lighting up the tampon string one).

Actually no problem with the sand one but believe me, go very carefully with any tampon insults when talking to a woman, I am very easygoing but if a man said that to me, there would be suffering in their future.

I actually used the "who lit your tampon" line on the wife the other day, was met with a chuckle and a defrosting of the previous strop as she found it funny. Maybe she is just a little more relaxed than you ant hill women on account of living somewhere where your sight line is further than 50 feet and every damned thing is not grim and concrete.

do you honestly not see how the mental image of an angry lady and the imagery of a lit fuse and the subsequent BANG of a monumental, hormone fuelled kick off could be funny to a lady who does not take herself too seriously???

try moving out of london, your humour gland may possibly start functioning again...

I actually moved out of London many years ago when I was a very small child, and have lived in small villages ever since so you are completely wrong in your insults, perhaps I am just more refined than your wife. less common maybe or maybe I am making judgements about your wife without knowledge in the same way you are doing about me.

I don't find your joke funny and neither would many of my friends, I find many other jokes funny, I am sure that you also find the same thing with jokes you hear - some are funny, some are not

[0000]

Someone's going to end up adjusting themselves to avoid "manspreading" and then all TTwiggy's female acquaintances that have ever used public transport will have another story to tell him.

[TTwiggy]

WinstonWolf said:

Correct, but TT is obviously trolling too. No one can be that right on and own a pair of testicles.

Rather than trying to suggest I've said anything 'right on', why don't you take up the offer of calling blue cat a liar about her experiences? Or maybe tell the chap who relayed the experiences his girlfriend has suffered that she's lying to him? Or tell me that my girlfriend is lying about the threats of rape she's 'enjoyed ' from men who were miffed that shouting 'oi blondie' at her didn't make her want to get to know them better.

You won't bother though will you? Much easier to take a personal swing at a poster whose views you don't agree with.

[TTwiggy]

0000 said:

Someone's going to end up adjusting themselves to avoid "manspreading" and then all TTwiggy's female acquaintances that have ever used public transport will have another story to tell him.

If anyone really needs to sit with their legs at right angles in order to avoid testicle crush then they should probably consult a gynaecologist.

[0000]

[bodhi]

Interestingly, as the OH is our house's Public Transport Consultant I just asked her about this manspreading phenomenon. Her reply?

"I'd rather they went after the selfish cows who decide their handbag needs a bloody seat as well"

Obviously less of an issue here up North....

[supersingle]

TTwiggy said:

If anyone really needs to sit with their legs at right angles in order to avoid testicle crush then they should probably consult a gynaecologist.

Gynaecologist? Are you sure?

Men sit with their legs spread because we have skinnier bottoms and a higher centre on gravity than women. If we don't sit like that we lose balance.

Trust feminists to be unable to see any situation other than from their own narrow point of view.

[Pesty]

Blue Cat said:

Actually no problem with the sand one but believe me, go very carefully with any tampon insults when talking to a woman, I am very easygoing but if a man said that to me, there would be suffering in their future.

Interesting. What kind of suffering? Violence by any chance?


Does that mean I can make a woman suffer next time she says something I don't like or does sexism only go one way.

Anybody like to imagine the amount butt hurt if that had been a man advocating a woman suffering?

[Stevanos]

TTwiggy said:

If anyone really needs to sit with their legs at right angles in order to avoid testicle crush then they should probably consult a gynaecologist.

Idiot, for those of us who are not midgets it is quite often impossible due the the tight seating arrangements.

[eharding]

Pesty said:

Blue Cat said:

Actually no problem with the sand one but believe me, go very carefully with any tampon insults when talking to a woman, I am very easygoing but if a man said that to me, there would be suffering in their future.

Interesting. What kind of suffering? Violence by any chance?

Worse. Much worse. Marriage.

[TTwiggy]

Stevanos said:

Idiot, for those of us who are not midgets it is quite often impossible due the the tight seating arrangements.

I'm 6ft 1in. I travel on the tube and the DLR. I have never felt the need to spread my legs into other people's space or display my crotch to all and sundry.

[bga]

Mr GrimNasty said:

TTwiggy said:

Almost every woman I've ever spoken to about public transport has a story involving some random bloke touching her up or pressing his erection up against the small of her back. Maybe they have a reason to be pissed off, eh?

Feminist garbage/misinformation.

It's happened to my missus on the tube (random bloke grabbing her bum) and a member of my team had guy stick his hand up her skirt on a late tube home, again unsolicited.

[Stevanos]

TTwiggy said:

I'm 6ft 1in. I travel on the tube and the DLR. I have never felt the need to spread my legs into other people's space or display my crotch to all and sundry.

Try it on First Great Western!

[WinstonWolf]

TTwiggy said:

WinstonWolf said:

Correct, but TT is obviously trolling too. No one can be that right on and own a pair of testicles.

Rather than trying to suggest I've said anything 'right on', why don't you take up the offer of calling blue cat a liar about her experiences? Or maybe tell the chap who relayed the experiences his girlfriend has suffered that she's lying to him? Or tell me that my girlfriend is lying about the threats of rape she's 'enjoyed ' from men who were miffed that shouting 'oi blondie' at her didn't make her want to get to know them better.

You won't bother though will you? Much easier to take a personal swing at a poster whose views you don't agree with.

So that's *three* experiences then.

TTwiggy said:

Almost every woman I've ever spoken to about public transport has a story involving some random bloke touching her up or pressing his erection up against the small of her back. Maybe they have a reason to be pissed off, eh?

[superkartracer]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

Sounds like a gay fantasy .

[TTwiggy]

WinstonWolf said:

TTwiggy said:

WinstonWolf said:

Correct, but TT is obviously trolling too. No one can be that right on and own a pair of testicles.

Rather than trying to suggest I've said anything 'right on', why don't you take up the offer of calling blue cat a liar about her experiences? Or maybe tell the chap who relayed the experiences his girlfriend has suffered that she's lying to him? Or tell me that my girlfriend is lying about the threats of rape she's 'enjoyed ' from men who were miffed that shouting 'oi blondie' at her didn't make her want to get to know them better.

You won't bother though will you? Much easier to take a personal swing at a poster whose views you don't agree with.

So that's *three* experiences then.

TTwiggy said:

Almost every woman I've ever spoken to about public transport has a story involving some random bloke touching her up or pressing his erection up against the small of her back. Maybe they have a reason to be pissed off, eh?

You missed bga's two examples a couple of posts up. So I make that 5 experiences from a very small sample size. But keep on denying it if it makes you happy.

[TTwiggy]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

Do you think you could have asked in a slighlty more polite manner?

No, I was not 'talking ste'. Many (most) women who I've spoken to about public transport (unsually the tube) have experienced some level of sexual harrasment on that transport. Everything from 'hang on, did he just brush his hand against my arse?', up to one instance of a man ejaculating over a woman's back as she was stood in front of him.

[Blue Cat]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

I think what it comes down to (and having in the past month also used the Los Angeles & Rome Metro systems, as well as the Tube), I would like to be able to travel in peace and not have to worry. If you are a female travelling alone esp at the quieter times of the day, you are always on edge and then you come on this forum and see men joking about it, claiming it doesn't happen or is an ugly lesbian man hating thing, it can be a bit aggravating.

I think that I should have the right to use whatever public transport I want, whenever I want and not be targeted just because I'm female.

[fido]

I think we're a getting a bit hung up about the definition of 'frequent'! Yes, women do get harassed on the tube. But I don't think you would expect to get harassed on a typical journey, unless you're very attractive or journey at kicking-out time every night.
As for man-spreaders and the female equivalent - women who cross their legs into your space - well that's about 75% of my journeys ..